School Council Minutes

9/1/2012

 

  • Present were Bobby, Seb, James, Edie, George, Hira, Billy, Maisey, Olivia, Becky, Curly Jack and Nell

 

  •  The meeting is to look at sugestions in the new class folders

 

  • Year 6 – have lost folder

 

  • Year 5 – One suggestion – “ The new extra hygiene soap is smelly and gives me a rash.  Can we change it back?”  Seb will ask Mr Ray about why the soap was changed. 

 

  • Year 4 – One suggestion – “Please can we have a bin in the toilets?”  The hand dryers are not very good and so people use toilet roll.

 

  • Year 3 – Two suggestions – “Everybody should have at least one prize at the end of party day.”

                                                              “ Everyone should have a chance to go on the grass”

Maisey and James will speak to Mr. Brawley.

  • The year 2 councellors will ask their teacher to put the folder up in the class room and Bobby will explain what it is there fore.

 

  • Year 1 have had no suggestions as of yet.

Year 2 – Term 2 Newsletter

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Year 3 – Term 2 Newsletter

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January Newsletter

 6 January 2012.

 Happy New Year to all parents and children. Below are a few items of news.

 

Oxfam Writing Competition

Mike and Annette came to our school in the last week of term with the results of the Oxfam writing competition. The theme was “A Winter’s Tale”. Almost half the school took part raising £98 for Oxfam’s work inAfrica. All of the winning entries are on display in our main corridor outside Year 5 and are a great read. The winners, who Mike and Annette said were very difficult to choose, all received a bag of Oxfam goodies. They are:

Rec: Martha, Y1: Polly, Y2: Martha, Y3: Lizzie, Y4: Erina and Lucas, Y5: Kyra, Y6: Aidan and Charlie

Thanks to Mrs Ward who organised the competition for the second year and to Mike and the staff at Oxfam with whom we aim to work more closely in the coming year.

 

Christmas Events

Thanks to all staff and children who helped make all of our Christmas productions such a success and to the parents and carers who filled the hall on each occasion making a wonderful atmosphere.

 

Clubs

Clubs will start again over the next two weeks. Gym and language clubs will start next week and football clubs in a few weeks when the light improves. We have a new Zumba club for Y4-6 girls starting on Tuesdays led by Nicola, a specialist teacher who worked with the school in Health and Sports week. This new club and all other clubs remain free. We are looking to provide more clubs for KS1 children. If you feel you would like to run a club please see me.

 

PE kits

A number of children in different classes have had to miss PE this week as they had no kit in school. A polite reminder that children should always have a kit in school on their PE days.  At our school we have an optional school uniform but a compulsory PE kit.

 

Attendance Letters

At the end of last term all parents/carers received a report on their child’s attendance over the term. Overall school attendance has improved compared to the same term last year: thanks to everyone who has helped in this area. I was able to particularly mention a large number of children who had 100% attendance in the autumn term. I have told all the children that in this new spring term all children gaining 100% attendance between now and Easter will receive a certificate and a reward.

 

Events:  

Parents’ Evenings: Wednesday 14, Thursday 15 March

Harmony Week: 26-30 March

Y6 Ingleborough residential: 21-25 May

Training Day:18 June.

Health and Sports week: 9-13 July

Friday 20 July: last day of term.

 

Michael Brawley

Y5 – Term 2 Newsletter

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Y6 – Term 2 Newsletter

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Year 4 – Term 2 Newsletter

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Y1 Term 2 Newsletter

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Reception – information for parents

 

Half Term 3

 Parent/Carer Information

 

Date:-  4/01/12

 

Class:- Reception

 

Teacher:- Mrs Lewis

 

 

Support:- Mrs Bhogal

 

 

 

    Spring Bank Primary    

School

 

Name:-

Maths – main focus

 

  • Counting/ordering numbers (0-20)
  • addition/Subtraction  within 10
  • Shape
  • Money, recognition of coins
  • Problem Solving
  • Measures, using non standard units

 

 
Other Curriculum Areas – main focus 

  • ICT…..to use information and communication technology to support their learning

 

  • P.E to build short repetitive phrase with a clear beginning and end through Dance

 

  • To transfer, ways of travelling and balancing, from the floor to the large apparatus

 

  • RE….Noah’sArk– Promises

 

  • Paintings of Kandinsky

 

  • Van Gogh

 

 

 

 

 

Literacy – main focus

 

  • Non-Fiction, linked to topic, Senses
  • Traditional Stories
  • Poetry
  • Continued focus on developing recognition of sounds and further development of reading strategies

Topic – main focus

 

  • Science-Senses
  • Geography- Map Making
 

Things to remember

 

 

  • P.E…..Wednesday and Thursday, children must have full PE kit in school on these days.
  • Plain white t-shirt, black shorts. (Indoor P.E)
  • Tracksuit, pumps/trainers (outdoor P.E.)

 

  • Book-bags should be brought to school every day
 
P.S.E. – main focus 

  • Showing concern for others
  • Listening and responding to others
  • Understanding forgiveness
  • Resolving conflicts
  • The importance of all individuals
 
Homework and other details 

  • Readingbooks are changed once a week
  • Children have reading books, words and sounds to learn during the week
  • Don’t forget Play and Learn Workshop every Thursday morning 9 till 10
 

Choir raises money for charity

choir

Our school choir have been out in Headingley singing Christmas carols. They raised a fantastic £97.10 for the charity organisation ‘Shelter.’ Well done to all the children that took part and thank you to parents for their support. A thank you to Mrs Mills and Becky who organised the event with such enthusiasm.